The Elephant in the Room

LINKEDIN I met her early last year at F1 Recruitment’s Let’s Be Bold About Race event which she was hosting as worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion M&C Saatchi. So, I was totally chuffed when she accepted my invitation to be a guest on The Elephant in the Room  Previously as a Diversity & Inclusion expert she has advised the U.K. Advertising & Media Industry Diversity Ta...

ShowNotes Advita Patel my guest on The Elephant in the Room Podcast is on a mission to empower women of colour in the PR Industry. A Board member of the CIPR and founder of Comms Rebel, last year she founded A Leader Like me with her co-founder Priya Bates to help career ambitious women of colour. Later in the year the duo launched the Diversity in PR conference(Oct 2020) and Diversity in Act...

Shownotes:  For the 15th Episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast, my guest is Carmel O’Toole. Carmel is the daughter of Irish migrants, left school at 18 to work as a journalist, was a part of the world’s first televised regeneration project at Channel 4, and now works as a lecturer in PR with Sheffield Halam University. Her research interests are local & regional media and crisis com...

Show Notes Many of you are familiar with @kiwigirl in UK. For this episode of the podcast we have a vocal cheerleader for school leavers as my guest. Penny Anderson is also Client Director of Reputation Intelligence at Kantar Media. In this episode Penny talks about her own Elephant in the room, her path to leadership, diversity & inclusion, role models, mental health and well being durin...

  SHOW NOTES She is the author of ‘ The Second Coming’ a romantic fiction, published by Harper Collins India; and ‘ Resilience - stories of Muslim Women’ published by FrontPage. I recently caught up Shubha Menon to discuss her journey from being a copy writer to author of a chicklit; pivoting to a different genre for her second book and her upcoming passion project.   In this episode she...

SHOW NOTES: I launched The Elephant in the Room podcast last year as a part of my learning journey to be more intentional and purpose driven. For most parts I love it, but as any podcast host will admit, it is hard work. It requires discipline to turn up week after week, and just the sheer number of hours it takes to put an episode together, can sometimes be a drag. However, I chose to do it, beca...

Show Notes I enjoy recording podcast with all my guests but this one was particularly full of laughter, learning and insights. For the 11th episode of #TheElephantintheRoom I interviewed Professor Jonathan A.J. Wilson, a Professor of Brand Strategy & Culture at Regent's University London, Editor-in-Chief of the  Journal of Islamic Marketing and the author of ‘Halal Branding’. Born and rai...

Shownotes He is a pioneer championing the honey hunters from the Kurumba and other tribes in the Nilgiri Biosphere in the Western ghats for the last decade. Mathew John, Managing Director of Last Forest Enterprise is helping protect indigenous communities who have been sustainably harvesting honey for thousands of years from honey cliffs and bee nesting trees. As a social enterprise its succe...

Show Notes My Guest on todays show is Amanda Fone a marcomm and sports marketing recruitment veteran and the founder of F1 Recruitment . She has been championing inclusion, diversity and social mobility long before they became buzz words. I met Amanda a couple of years back and was struck by her empathy, her deep belief in supporting her candidates on their journey and her activism on inclusi...

SHOWNOTES  My guest on the 8th episode of the #TheElephantintheRoom podcast is Barbara Phillips, Chair of the Race and Ethnicity Board(REEB). REEB was set up last year by the PRCA in response to Black Lives Matter(BLM) to address issues of racial inequality within our Industry. Her ambition is to ensure that black, asian and ethnic minority talent in the industry are able to flourish and thri...

She is a doyenne of Indian feminism, a poet, author, feminist and development activist. She is also the South Asia co-ordinator for ‘One Billion Rising’. So, I was thrilled and honoured to have Kamla Bhasin as a guest on my podcast. The most important takeaway for me was the power of alliances local and global to address inequalities in society/the world. Also, that it takes more than legisla...

My guest on today’s show is a dear friend Michelle Hakata. Michelle is an independent public health communications expert working in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. She is passionate about public health issues relating to sexual and reproductive health rights of women. Michelle has significant experience of working with non-governmental organisations, diaspora groups and the private sector on devel...

Shownotes:  My guest on today’s show is Suresh Raj - Chief Business Development Officer (hunter) at Vision 7. Suresh is a founding member of The Collective, a global mentor for INvolve, the diversity and inclusion specialists and is an inaugural member of McKinsey’s The Alliance. Recognitions include being named to two prominent global lists – (1) Financial Times’ and Yahoo! Finance’s To...

SHOWNOTES My guest on today’s podcast is Jennifer Risi, Founder and CEO of ‘The Sway Effect’. In this fast paced session we speak about her family, education, background in psychology and how she landed her first job at Weber Shandwick. She also speaks about:  👉🏾 Her entrepreneurial journey and the agency of the future 👉🏾 Walking the talk on Diversity & Inclusion at The Sway Effect. T...

My guest in the third episode of the podcast is Sharif Rangnekar author of ‘Straight to Normal’ my life as a gay man. He is the festival director of ‘The Rainbow Literature festival’ and he curates, ‘Embrace music justice arts’ platform. Sharif is a TEDx speaker,  a former President of the PRCAI and former board member of global communications forum ICCO. He is a communications and workplace...

My guest on today's show is Clare Parsons Co-Founder of Lansons and Fellow CIPR. In the podcast Clare speaks about her background, her journey into communications, setting up Lansons and being a values/purpose driven business. Some of the other topics covered in the podcast are: Purpose and business in a Post COVID/BLM  How BLM has impacted her view of the world, the industry and general...

My guest on today's show is Dr Titilola Banjoko, MD NHS; Entrepreneur; Chair Board of Trustees, International Rescue Committee.  In this in-depth and freewheeling conversation Dr Banjoko speaks about:  - Setting up findajobinafrica.com and Africa Recruit and twin tracks of growth - Intersectionality, structural and systemic racism including in the NHS - Purpose, Fairness and Equity - D&a...

Hey Everyone, Welcome to The Elephant in The Room Podcast , with me Sudha Singh If you don’t already know the term, (according to Wikipedia) it is often used to describe an issue that involves a social  taboo  or which generates disagreement, such as race, religion, politics, homosexuality, or mental illness. It is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged; and the people who migh...